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“For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper--I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself--you got this.”

Source: The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You

“A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.”

Mood Ruins Tense Lending Conditional Present Tense Lenders Money Lenders

Author:Joseph Addison

“Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mean Seems Letters Mood Familiar Poetic Vivid December Receptivity

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that the frosts will find us, And the smiling skies grow rude, While we look in the face of Beauty, And worship her every mood.”

Knows Looks Faces Grows Voice Sky Divine Sorrow Summer Worship Winter Dear Mood Rude Frost Bright Smiles

Author:Celia Thaxter

“Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries.”

Political Suffering Opportunity Majors Discovery Profound Physics Mood Particles Spectacular Particle Physics

Author:Leon M. Lederman

“It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.”

Men Littles Persons Enough Sex Opposites Calm Mood Odd Entrances Disturbance Calm Down Assemblage

Book:Wifes And Daughters

Source: Wifes And Daughters

“Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?”

Ifs Men Needs May Spiritual Growth Church Moral Holy Blessing Seasons Mood Genuine Gods Will Rely Decay Uniforms Doomed Conform Revival Forsake Caprice Spiritual Strength Holy God

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read women as easily and accurately as women read each other. They are alert to detect and interpret those smallest trifles in tone, expression, and bearing, which betray the real mood far more unmistakably than more obvious signs.”

Men Real Dangerous Expression Lovers Organization Obvious Mood Tone Feminine Betray Smallest Temperament Trifles Delicacy

Author:Edward Bellamy

“[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.”

Should Humans Home Perfect Quality Limits Should Have Strive Improvement Mood Quantity Providing Arrangements Unlimited Felicity

Book:Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature

Source: Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature

“A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.”

Reason Use Able Sides Successful Politician Skills Logic Moved Instinct Mood

Author:Jean Chretien

“I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.”

“Research, for me, it's trying to get a mood, a mood of a place and style of people and it's also trying to boost my confidence and get the adrenalin flowing. I go off on my trips to odd places and dark corners, feeling somewhat apprehensive and nervous.”

People Trying Feelings Dark Style Research Corners Mood Nervous Odd Boost

Author:Gerald Seymour

“We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.”

People Ifs Should Problem Social Cities Worry Media Anxiety Social Media Mood Disorder Schizophrenic Mood Disorders

Author:Nick Harkaway

“Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by everybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters - I think that shows the mood of the movie.”

Thinking Wells Character Shows Example Mirrors Mood Harsh Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden American Society Lead Characters

Author:Uwe Boll

“The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.”

Feelings Term Progress Modern Poet Discipline Essentials Seeking Mood Rhythm Verses Reserves Schemes Unfortunate Alliances Thoughts And Feelings Implied Irresponsibility Free Verse

Author:Herbert Read

“The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.”

Way Nations Fashion Majors Constant Notes Mood Setting Settings Minors Chords Assertive Foreboding

Book:Games with Shadows

Source: Games with Shadows

“The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.”

Government Laughing Movement Mood Frustration Ridicule Tibetan

Book:Darkness and the light

Source: Darkness and the light

“It seemed to me that I now saw the Star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had given rise to me, the cosmos; and also, most dreadfully, as something incomparably greater than creativity, namely as the eternally achieved perfection of the absolute spirit. Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.”

Two Spirit Given Stars Creativity Creative Saws Greater Particular Aspect Perfection Absolutes Mood Cosmos Makers Barren

Author:Olaf Stapledon

“First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down to reality, but his people belong to a prosperous middle-class world, on holiday and in holiday mood. Piers Plowman stands alone as a revelation of the ignorance and misery of the lower classes, whose multiplied grievances came to a head in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.”

“The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.”

Believe Culture Influence Taste Miracle Assuming Contrary Mood Rational Spite Idiosyncrasies Personal Taste

Author:John Cowper Powys

“But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.”

Self Hard Rooms Moon Creating Core Mood Transformed Grey Orange Mist Faded Dreamy Hard Core Whistler

Author:Mark Tobey

“Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist) Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it. He will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it.”

Way Trying Art Artist Certain Simple Deals Cities Profound Mood Impression Instance Plastic Canvas Skyscraper

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.”

Humans Art Spirit Strong Human Beings Emotion Strength Impact Depth Mood

Author:Li Shan

“I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay. ... But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get.”

Moments Age Remember Young Joy Changed Gay Harder Mood Remember When

Author:Bai Juyi

“The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.”

Self Culture Mood Contemporary Celebration Dominant American Culture

Author:William A. Henry III

“We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when we are miserable and work with ourselves to replace our misery with joy and understanding.”

Littles Joy Understanding Growth Progress Misery Instinct Strive Mood Miserable Conquer Stride Good Mood

Author:Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

“One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.”

Humans Important Feelings Night Certain Values Knowledge Heard Ignorance Flower Understood Garden Direct Strikes Mood Dramatic Poetic Leafs Meadows Prodigies Imbecility Dazed

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.”

World Writing Book Couple Fit Areas Focused Mood Setting Settings Narrative Atmosphere Constructs Writing A Book

Author:China Mieville

“Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.”

Needs Mind Mean States Moments Form Individual Creation Particular Expression Mood Rhythm Release Colour Appropriate State Of Mind Imperatives Individual Work

Author:Lyonel Feininger

“So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon.”

Wells Sides Serious Concerned Inspired Mood Abandon Cartoon Mischievous

Author:R. K. Laxman

“Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.”

May States Mystery Dog Affection Mood Ancestor Marvelous My Dog Fidelity Deathless

Author:William James

“It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.”

Pain Drug Patient Killing Mood Impression Therapy Injury

Author:John E. Sarno

“Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.”

Source: The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures

“One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness of the men who chiefly prosper under it; another for its mere confusion and noise; another for its false values; it was until recently most fiercely attacked for its impoverishment of the workers, its margin of unemployment and the rest - indeed so fiercely that it was compelled to seek palliatives for the evil. With a mass of men it was attacked from a vague but strong sense of injustice; it allowed a few rich to exploit mankind.”

“Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not in rage surely in bewilderment, or gloom, or in cynicism, or even hysterically - all of those emotional excesses must be contained by the professional. Which is why balance is one of the essential ingredients of golf. Professionals invariably trudge phlegmatically around the course - whatever emotions are seething within - with the grim yet placid and bored look of cowpokes, slack-bodied in their saddles, who have been tending the same herd for two months.”

“One of the effects it [cocaine] had on my personality - my moods, my behaviors - was that it inhibited me a lot. It kind of took possibilities out of my world, and made the focus of things very narrow.”

World Kind Made Focus Effects Possibility Personality Behavior Mood Cocaine

Author:George Carlin

“It's really a lot of fun to see that this music can actually survive, that it can be concert music. My solo shows are already going along that path. You have the freedom to basically push to party, or you can tell a story from nothing with soundscapes, moving images, to a real party mood. At some concerts, people get out of their seats and start dancing after a while.”

People Real Stories Shows Moving Fun Party Path Dancing Mood Seats Concerts Solo

Author:Pantha du Prince

“Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.”

People Greater Conditions Honor Circumstances Promise Overcoming Medical Mood Observation Comparison Mentality Soar Your Honor Medical Conditions

Author:Stephen Covey

“Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.”

Term Attitude Mood Going Through Changes

Author:Andrew W.K.

“I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.”

Knows Father Parent One Thing Mood Being A Parent Bad Mood

Author:Adam Sandler

“Social media has a way of changing your mood. I can see a picture of my ex, and it ruins my day.”

Way I Can Social Media Social Media Mood Ruins Exes

Author:Kim Stolz

“When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.”

Feelings Past Emotional Sticks Mood Bad Mood Good Mood

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.”

Giving Motivation Energy Levels Balance Essentials Mood Receiving Consistently High Level Giving And Receiving

Author:Doreen Virtue

“My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.”

Morning Dad Wake Up Mood Enjoyed Mum Good Mood Mum And Dad

Author:Rafe Spall

“I always choose music based on whatever the scene calls for, or whatever my mood is supposed to be.”

Scene Mood Supposed To Be

Author:Sinqua Walls

“I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.”

World Trying Watches Mood Peaceful Uplifting

Author:Yaya DaCosta

“I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.”

Ifs Known Mood Swings Halfway Mood Swing

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.”

Kind Bits Roles Clothes Mood Role Playing

Author:Lily Cole

“High heels are like a beauty lift. In a flat you can feel beautiful, but a stiletto changes your mood, how you move - like a wild, beautiful animal. The idea was always to follow a women's wardrobe, her desires.”

Feels Ideas Beautiful Moving Desire Animal Mood Lifts Flats Heels Wardrobe High Heels Feeling Beautiful Stilettos

Author:Giuseppe Zanotti

“FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then begins, little by little, to bleed real blood until, in the end, the blood turns out to be our own. I read it nearly thirty years ago in its previous incarnation as Mood Indigo and I loved it then; it's still one of my favorite books in the whole world”

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